acerigger, you will be known from here on as "Mr. Obvious". But please allow me to correct you. the "Path To Citizenship" is only directed at the group known as "Illegal Aliens". Before any talk of what to do with the millions who are here illegally I don't recall any such phrase.
easy, Your Huffington Post link fails to mention Mr. Stiglitz advising President Obama for a short period that ended with criticism of the president. Here is what he had to say.
Stiglitz said that whoever designed the Obama administration's bank rescue plan is "either in the pocket of the banks or they’re incompetent."
He was equally critical of Obama's corporate bailouts.
In the Post link there is mention of Americans loss of 40% of there wealth between 2007 & 2010. Now if we think about the facts and the timeline it would appear to me this is directly related to real estate values and nothing more. Most Americans wealth is in their homes. Not in the bank. We never hear of Americans great gains in wealth when real estate values escalate for no logical reason. Example,,,, A house sold for $85,000 in Florida in 2000. The same house sold for $245,000 in 2005. Could someone please explain the reason for the price increase? Now the 2007-2010 situation has the same home priced back at the 2000 value and brilliant economists want us to believe Americans have lost 40% of their net worth? I think it has much more to do with politics than economics.
Blackwastewater, You sure are entertaining when you're drinking. I especially enjoy the elementary school name calling.
Now if reality has anything to do with this cartoon corner and what we perceive as needed are more poor unskilled illegal aliens added to the list of "Legal Americans", we as a nation must decide how to pay for the goods and services we promise to provide for our newest citizens. If anyone follows what insurance companies have been saying and lawmakers have accepted, insurance costs are and will continue to skyrocket with no end in sight. So the path to citizenship will either be paved with gold or we must reform what is freely given to the newcomers. The argument that the new Americans that arrived at Ellis Island were given citizenship is far different from what is offered today. There were no social programs offered free of charge at taxpayer expense. The country needed more citizens and many arrived with skills that allowed them to be self sufficient. These same people also survived the Great Depression and in fact were The Greatest Generation. So what happened?
Limric, Give a colonic a try, that is unless you just love the smell of your own poo. It's 2013 man. Get with it. I know you rode the short bus and licked the windows as a kid but that doesn't give you the right to make fun of my sssstutter problem. I still think your rrrealllly are ccccoool ttthhoough.
Back to the Democratic written quiz you scored at the top of your class on and easy's comments. You can read opinions from one side and then another but the facts never lie. If you have a condition that is documented and must seek insurance from one of the exchanges set up in your state you will pay significantly more for your health care than someone who is healthy. The fact is Obama doesn't care. The cost for the Medicade expansion will cost the rest of America more. It is basic math. Stop licking the windows and think! And also remember, while wages and benefits are down, health care costs continue to climb at rates that are not affordable for many working families. I guess the key there is "WORKING FAMILIES." And don't forget the retired Americans who worked their entire lives paying for the benefit of Medicare when many Medicaid members have paid nothing and receive benefits that far exceed the Medicare participants. Now isn't that something.
As for the dearly departed Mr. Hugo Chavez. Who he despised more than any American was the neoliberal. Now how about that? You folks happen to know any of them there neoliberals? Or do you just know them old kind of liberals?
Read for yourselves. How could the same Congressional Budget Office be so sure of the facts in 2010 and so wrong 3 short years later? Perhaps the quiz is just another pile of BS?
limric, I am so proud of you for your brilliant achievement! Perhaps your mommie will give you a gold star to put on the refrigerator with your name on it? Your SOOOO CCCUTE!!!
Perhaps "UNTIED WE STAND" is more appropriate? We continue to trip over our laces always talking about tying up the loose ends but never seeming to have the time or ability to do so.
Yesterday we heard our president talk about creating jobs. The jobs mentioned were for road construction workers and bridge builders. Now if he only had the intelligence to have uttered those words when first elected and created a works program instead of giving people 2 years of unemployment benefits knowing the states didn't have the money to pay back, he most certainly would have gone down in history as one of the great presidents. Our bridges would be repaired, our roads seeing the much needed improvements they need, new power plants being constructed to replace the dinosaurs we depend on in many cases, and removing this ethanol blight imposed upon Americans, replacing it with a sensible choice that is affordable for all.
We also listened as he spoke of wanting to help the middle class, {Whatever that is} and continue to push to raise the minimum wage so it is a wage families can live on. What??? He also wants to continue to allow college students to borrow obscene amounts of money so they can graduate from college, move back home with mom & dad and default on their loans because they cannot find a job. If only he was smart enough to have made these young men and women construction workers and bridge builders 4 years ago we instead would have a large group of employed well paid young people who didn't look to an inflated minimum wage as their lifeline to a simple existence. And instead of having a loan payment they would have a paycheck.
This president does not appear to be a very good community organizer.
We all may now assume you are a fan of the crouton and love to eat them. Perhaps we can simply refer to you from now on as The Big Leblowski? Sweet how you Down Low folks stick up for each other.
Perhaps you would be kind enough to translate a phrase for me since you are such a brilliant Spanish linguist. I have forever wondered what it means in plain English.
Buenas penis mi crotcho.
Thanks for the help in advance. You are just swell!
Your bla bla bla, was included in the first sentence of the partial paragraph you decided to copy and paste. It said,
"The point is anyone who is given access to a gun, purchases one on the street, or steals a gun has a gun."
Buying a gun at a gun show is buying a gun on the street. The phrase in the toon you adore so much was, "Has A Gun." No mention of the word "LEGAL."
The week following the Newtown tragedy, a two year old in Harrison was visiting grandparents, found a gun and died while playing with it. Tragic. I don't own a gun and do not feel a need for one. I do know many people who do own guns and even have a safe for them keeping them locked up except for the same one the 2 year old discovered. The one loaded in the nightstand or under the pillow intended to keep the owner and family safe.
Again, if anyone has a solution to keep guns from the crazy, criminal, fanatical or innocent, please contact your congressman and ask that it be made law.
Your conclusion to your convoluted story claiming things would be different if the weapons used at Columbine were purchased through a federally licensed dealer is absurd. The only thing that would be different is that an 18 year old women would have been prosecuted. Not much comfort to the children and their families. The same could be said for the mother in Newtown if her son simply proceeded to the school without first killing her. Again, regardless of the legal outcome, the victims, witnesses and families would still be left with nothing to make their lives whole again. All to often the weapons we possess to protect us only harm our loved ones and even ourselves. Tragic doesen't even begin to describe these situations.
I didn't think the mentally ill could have a gun? Well they sure do draw purrty cartoons, now don't they?
The point is anyone who is given access to a gun, purchases one on the street, or steals a gun has a gun. The Newtown murders came about because of an irresponsible legal gun owner, the mother, allowing someone access to her weapons, her son. Now if anyone can legislate that to correct the situation please step forward. Until then perhaps the artist might consider Thumpers fathers advice and say nothing at all.
The Choice
acerigger, you will be known from here on as "Mr. Obvious". But please allow me to correct you. the "Path To Citizenship" is only directed at the group known as "Illegal Aliens". Before any talk of what to do with the millions who are here illegally I don't recall any such phrase.
easy, Your Huffington Post link fails to mention Mr. Stiglitz advising President Obama for a short period that ended with criticism of the president. Here is what he had to say.
Stiglitz said that whoever designed the Obama administration's bank rescue plan is "either in the pocket of the banks or they’re incompetent."
He was equally critical of Obama's corporate bailouts.
In the Post link there is mention of Americans loss of 40% of there wealth between 2007 & 2010. Now if we think about the facts and the timeline it would appear to me this is directly related to real estate values and nothing more. Most Americans wealth is in their homes. Not in the bank. We never hear of Americans great gains in wealth when real estate values escalate for no logical reason. Example,,,, A house sold for $85,000 in Florida in 2000. The same house sold for $245,000 in 2005. Could someone please explain the reason for the price increase? Now the 2007-2010 situation has the same home priced back at the 2000 value and brilliant economists want us to believe Americans have lost 40% of their net worth? I think it has much more to do with politics than economics.
The Choice
Blackwastewater, You sure are entertaining when you're drinking. I especially enjoy the elementary school name calling.
Now if reality has anything to do with this cartoon corner and what we perceive as needed are more poor unskilled illegal aliens added to the list of "Legal Americans", we as a nation must decide how to pay for the goods and services we promise to provide for our newest citizens. If anyone follows what insurance companies have been saying and lawmakers have accepted, insurance costs are and will continue to skyrocket with no end in sight. So the path to citizenship will either be paved with gold or we must reform what is freely given to the newcomers. The argument that the new Americans that arrived at Ellis Island were given citizenship is far different from what is offered today. There were no social programs offered free of charge at taxpayer expense. The country needed more citizens and many arrived with skills that allowed them to be self sufficient. These same people also survived the Great Depression and in fact were The Greatest Generation. So what happened?
Expansion
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/02/obamacare-medicaid-expansion-poor_n_2226995.html
Hugo Chavez
Easy,
You down low lover,, you go boy!!!
Limric, Give a colonic a try, that is unless you just love the smell of your own poo. It's 2013 man. Get with it. I know you rode the short bus and licked the windows as a kid but that doesn't give you the right to make fun of my sssstutter problem. I still think your rrrealllly are ccccoool ttthhoough.
Back to the Democratic written quiz you scored at the top of your class on and easy's comments. You can read opinions from one side and then another but the facts never lie. If you have a condition that is documented and must seek insurance from one of the exchanges set up in your state you will pay significantly more for your health care than someone who is healthy. The fact is Obama doesn't care. The cost for the Medicade expansion will cost the rest of America more. It is basic math. Stop licking the windows and think! And also remember, while wages and benefits are down, health care costs continue to climb at rates that are not affordable for many working families. I guess the key there is "WORKING FAMILIES." And don't forget the retired Americans who worked their entire lives paying for the benefit of Medicare when many Medicaid members have paid nothing and receive benefits that far exceed the Medicare participants. Now isn't that something.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/02/06/the-most-depressing-graph-in-the-new-cbo-report/
As for the dearly departed Mr. Hugo Chavez. Who he despised more than any American was the neoliberal. Now how about that? You folks happen to know any of them there neoliberals? Or do you just know them old kind of liberals?
Hugo Chavez
Any quiz that states facts from the CBO in 2010 isn't a very realistic quiz of today's facts.
And the CBO now says in the year 2013,,,,,,,
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/02/07/cbo_is_increasingly_skeptical_about_obamacare_116951.html
Read for yourselves. How could the same Congressional Budget Office be so sure of the facts in 2010 and so wrong 3 short years later? Perhaps the quiz is just another pile of BS?
limric, I am so proud of you for your brilliant achievement! Perhaps your mommie will give you a gold star to put on the refrigerator with your name on it? Your SOOOO CCCUTE!!!
Unity
Perhaps "UNTIED WE STAND" is more appropriate? We continue to trip over our laces always talking about tying up the loose ends but never seeming to have the time or ability to do so.
Yesterday we heard our president talk about creating jobs. The jobs mentioned were for road construction workers and bridge builders. Now if he only had the intelligence to have uttered those words when first elected and created a works program instead of giving people 2 years of unemployment benefits knowing the states didn't have the money to pay back, he most certainly would have gone down in history as one of the great presidents. Our bridges would be repaired, our roads seeing the much needed improvements they need, new power plants being constructed to replace the dinosaurs we depend on in many cases, and removing this ethanol blight imposed upon Americans, replacing it with a sensible choice that is affordable for all.
We also listened as he spoke of wanting to help the middle class, {Whatever that is} and continue to push to raise the minimum wage so it is a wage families can live on. What??? He also wants to continue to allow college students to borrow obscene amounts of money so they can graduate from college, move back home with mom & dad and default on their loans because they cannot find a job. If only he was smart enough to have made these young men and women construction workers and bridge builders 4 years ago we instead would have a large group of employed well paid young people who didn't look to an inflated minimum wage as their lifeline to a simple existence. And instead of having a loan payment they would have a paycheck.
This president does not appear to be a very good community organizer.
Outreach
dude_
We all may now assume you are a fan of the crouton and love to eat them. Perhaps we can simply refer to you from now on as The Big Leblowski? Sweet how you Down Low folks stick up for each other.
Outreach
hey alpo,
Perhaps you would be kind enough to translate a phrase for me since you are such a brilliant Spanish linguist. I have forever wondered what it means in plain English.
Buenas penis mi crotcho.
Thanks for the help in advance. You are just swell!
Obamaphobia
mountainlaurel,
Your bla bla bla, was included in the first sentence of the partial paragraph you decided to copy and paste. It said,
"The point is anyone who is given access to a gun, purchases one on the street, or steals a gun has a gun."
Buying a gun at a gun show is buying a gun on the street. The phrase in the toon you adore so much was, "Has A Gun." No mention of the word "LEGAL."
The week following the Newtown tragedy, a two year old in Harrison was visiting grandparents, found a gun and died while playing with it. Tragic. I don't own a gun and do not feel a need for one. I do know many people who do own guns and even have a safe for them keeping them locked up except for the same one the 2 year old discovered. The one loaded in the nightstand or under the pillow intended to keep the owner and family safe.
Again, if anyone has a solution to keep guns from the crazy, criminal, fanatical or innocent, please contact your congressman and ask that it be made law.
Your conclusion to your convoluted story claiming things would be different if the weapons used at Columbine were purchased through a federally licensed dealer is absurd. The only thing that would be different is that an 18 year old women would have been prosecuted. Not much comfort to the children and their families. The same could be said for the mother in Newtown if her son simply proceeded to the school without first killing her. Again, regardless of the legal outcome, the victims, witnesses and families would still be left with nothing to make their lives whole again. All to often the weapons we possess to protect us only harm our loved ones and even ourselves. Tragic doesen't even begin to describe these situations.
Obamaphobia
I didn't think the mentally ill could have a gun? Well they sure do draw purrty cartoons, now don't they?
The point is anyone who is given access to a gun, purchases one on the street, or steals a gun has a gun. The Newtown murders came about because of an irresponsible legal gun owner, the mother, allowing someone access to her weapons, her son. Now if anyone can legislate that to correct the situation please step forward. Until then perhaps the artist might consider Thumpers fathers advice and say nothing at all.